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Blaze

1989, Movie, R, 120 mins

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BLAZE may be the least sleazy movie about whoring since THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS. Paul Newman stars as Louisiana governor Earl K. Long in this sanitized romance adapted by director Ron Shelton from the autobiography of Blaze Starr, the Bourbon Street stripper who supposedly stole Long's heart. After tracing the background of aspiring singer-turned-burlesque diva Starr (Lolita Davidovich), the film concentrates on Long's courtship of her (his real-life wife is abse... read more leave a comment
Year: 1989
Rated R

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Cast
Paul Newman: Gov. Earl K. Long
Lolita Davidovich: Blaze Starr
Jerry Hardin: Thibodeaux
Gailard Sartain: LaGrange
Jeffrey DeMunn: Tuck
Carey Garland Bunting: Doc Ferriday

 

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Blaze | Most Precious Love | King Street Sounds
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Posted: 11/12/2009
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Posted: 6/20/2008
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Sex Scandals and Politicians at the Movies

Ask FlickChick What was that movie about a governor who resigned because of a scandal involving prostitutesQuestion I know this is shallow but when I heard about Eliot Spitzer hiring hookers the first thing I thought of was this movie I saw about a governor who had to resign because of his relationship with a prostitute But for the life of me I cant remember who was in it or any of the details Can you help RachelFlickChick I can You must be thinking of Blaze 1989 a fictionalized version of the real-life relationship between stripper Blaze Starr played by Lolita Davidovich and Louisiana governor Earl Long Paul Newman younger brother of the notorious Huey The Kingfish Long The 62-year-old Earl Long in the third year of his third term as governor he served first from 1939-1940 then as lieutenant governor he stepped in for disgraced governor Richard Leche from 1948-1952 and his third term was 1956-1960 in 1958 or 59 met Starr then in her twenties w read more

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